Tomas Leijtens

Tomas has been working on a renewable energy future since making hydrogen fuel in teapots at home at age 15. After taking Swift Solar to large-scale commercial success, Tomas plans to join the Dutch national soccer team to bring them back to their former glory. After receiving a BSc with honors in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, Tomas completed his PhD at the University of Oxford. There, he worked to improve the reliability of perovskite solar cells since their inception in 2012. He joined Stanford as a Marie Curie Fellow in 2015, where he developed the first all-perovskite tandem photovoltaic technology with Giles Eperon and Kevin Bush. Prior to Swift, he was most recently at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO as a research scientist. His academic work has led to >60 publications with >20,000 citations. He was named a Forbes 30 under 30 Fellow in Science and was recognized as an “Emerging Investigator” by the Journal of Materials Chemistry in 2017.